![]() I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed.Īlready I was storing these lessons inside me. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. He knew he would regret it-in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain.īut was a woman's heart any purer, in the end? That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. The Palace of Illusions, a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, is a perfect recipe for anyone who is an aspiring novelist and wants to make something happen. ![]() That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. The novel is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Draupadi 's (Panchaali's) viewpoint, namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. “For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. The Palace of Illusions: A Novel is a 2008 novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Doubleday. ![]()
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